Meteorites offer a unique natural archive of high-pressure processes induced by impact events that subject materials to extreme pressures and temperatures within fractions of a second. These ...

Preface -- Samples and experimental methods -- General introduction of the Yanzhuang meteorite -- Microstructures and shock metamorphic features of minerals in the unmelted chondritic portion -- ...

Earth is constantly bombarded by space debris, from the tons of cosmic dust that lands on the planet daily to rare, huge, dinosaur-killing asteroids that arrive from deep space every tens of millions ...